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Proportion of nutrients furnished by different food materials in average of 376 American 



dietary studies. 



As will be seen from the above table, meats and poultry furnish 

 not quite twice as much protein as all other animal foods together, 

 and of the meats beef and veal together furnish in round numbers 

 half of the protein supplied by the group of total meats. As sources 

 of fat, meats furnish a little over twice as much as is supplied by all 

 the other animal foods, pork being the most important of the meats 

 in this respect. Dairy products are the most important animal 



